My IBM 75GXP hard drives havebeen the most reliable hard drives I've ever used. The three I own have run, quietly and reliably, for about a year, 24/7.
One thing to keep in mind is that Troll Tech is a company who sells a product (Qt commercial version costs $). Their attacks against GNOME may be a little inflamatory, but remember--they've got to sell a product and compete with gtk+, which is free.
gtk+ 1.4 will have the infrastructure to offer good cross platform support and has unicode (with pango). In other words, it's only a matter of time before gtk+ has the same features as Qt 2.x.
If I remember correctly, one of the primary reasons the C language was chosen for the GNOME project was to make it easy to create bindings for several other languages.
But the reality is, even after several years, there is only one almost-complete set of useful language bindings (python). Even gtk-- (the C++ bindings) split into gtk-- (almost done) and gnome--(currently incomplete).
Why has this lack of development occurred?
With an influx of windows users, some of them developers, shouldn't it be high on the priority list to create good C++ bindings similar to how MFC is a wrapper for win32?
Mutt not only seamlessly interacts with PGP, but also with the GNU Privacy Guard (GPG). Mutt is absolutely fantastic as MUA. If you're really crazy, you can use it under windows by compiling it with cygwin/slang.
I run a Redhat 5.1 box which has been used heavily over the past few months. The funny thing is, after all this use, it's hard to stay on the bleeding edge if I depend completely on RPMS. So I use tar.gz. And guess what? After months of tweaking and customizing, my box looks closer and closer to good 'ol Slackware. It just evolved that way I guess.
I can see where RPMS/DEBs would be useful for system administrators or those running a heavily visited server. However, I'm just a joe linux user who connects via PPP and checks his email. I really have no need to worry about most of my binaries being secure when/etc/hosts.deny is set to ALL:ALL and/etc/inetd.conf is all commented out.
While I believe removing Anonymous Coward posting would be an asset to this site, mandating any kind of filtering, even ispell, would only serve to hurt. I believe that one's spelling/grammer tells you something about that person. Its up to him/her to decide whether to present ideas in a coherent manner.
A spell checker would be a really nice _option_ though.
No offense intended, but "Debian Reveals glibc2.1" then you talk about slink then you mention some directory.. This post makes no sense whatsoever. WTF is going on here, folks? Is glibc2.1 in slink? is it stable/unstable? Let us know these thigns, otherwise you're talking in swahilli.
I'll agree that it took me 2 hours to get the damn gnome rpms installed (it's even harder to compile from source. I don't really like KDE, but at least they make their installation process fairly simple and straightforward. I can handle installing four or five RPMS in a specific order, but installing 20-30 of them, with know knowledge of whether i'll need the -devel- packages, is ridiculous.
I'm a redhat user, and I can say that RPMS are pretty piss poor compared to the stuff people can do with.DEBs.
Nope.. Learning Perl is probably the best tutorial book I've ever seen (language independent). And I'd highly reccommend it. Though, if you know your programming pretty well, I'd skip Learning Perl and go straight for Programming Perl 2nd Edition (the camel book).
It doesn't surprise me that http://www.planetquake.com runs IIS. Notice that it and all its affiliate sites (ritualistic.com, etc) all use ASP... Of course, I think we all know they'd be better off with apache...
That's a damn good question.:) I'm guessing that maybe it will allow you to restore the state of apps when you return, but I donno... Can anyone point me to some info?
I don't know if it's all a matter of time though. I think it's also a matter of geography. Now that we are involved in a new "global economy", we might have history repeating itself all over again. These "symptoms" Katz observerves are probably a result of an immature global economy. Now that shoe companies have foreign workers (instead of domestic) slaving away in factories for pennies because it's the most efficient way to operate. It'll only be time before those workers form something like a Union.
Slashdot Mirror
My IBM 75GXP hard drives havebeen the most reliable hard drives I've ever used. The three I own have run, quietly and reliably, for about a year, 24/7.
One thing to keep in mind is that Troll Tech is a company who sells a product (Qt commercial version costs $). Their attacks against GNOME may be a little inflamatory, but remember--they've got to sell a product and compete with gtk+, which is free.
gtk+ 1.4 will have the infrastructure to offer good cross platform support and has unicode (with pango). In other words, it's only a matter of time before gtk+ has the same features as Qt 2.x.
In vim, type 'gqap' (without the quotes) with the cursor inside the paragraph you want to nicely format.
If I remember correctly, one of the primary reasons the C language was chosen for the GNOME project was to make it easy to create bindings for several other languages.
But the reality is, even after several years, there is only one almost-complete set of useful language bindings (python). Even gtk-- (the C++ bindings) split into gtk-- (almost done) and gnome--(currently incomplete).
Why has this lack of development occurred?
With an influx of windows users, some of them developers, shouldn't it be high on the priority list to create good C++ bindings similar to how MFC is a wrapper for win32?
Mutt not only seamlessly interacts with PGP, but also with the GNU Privacy Guard (GPG). Mutt is absolutely fantastic as MUA. If you're really crazy, you can use it under windows by compiling it with cygwin/slang.
I run a Redhat 5.1 box which has been used heavily over the past few months. The funny thing is, after all this use, it's hard to stay on the bleeding edge if I depend completely on RPMS. So I use tar.gz. And guess what? After months of tweaking and customizing, my box looks closer and closer to good 'ol Slackware. It just evolved that way I guess.
/etc/hosts.deny is set to ALL:ALL and /etc/inetd.conf is all commented out.
I can see where RPMS/DEBs would be useful for system administrators or those running a heavily visited server. However, I'm just a joe linux user who connects via PPP and checks his email. I really have no need to worry about most of my binaries being secure when
While I believe removing Anonymous Coward posting would be an asset to this site, mandating any kind of filtering, even ispell, would only serve to hurt. I believe that one's spelling/grammer tells you something about that person. Its up to him/her to decide whether to present ideas in a coherent manner.
A spell checker would be a really nice _option_ though.
No offense intended, but "Debian Reveals glibc2.1" then you talk about slink then you mention some directory.. This post makes no sense whatsoever. WTF is going on here, folks? Is glibc2.1 in slink? is it stable/unstable? Let us know these thigns, otherwise you're talking in swahilli.
.DEBs.
I'll agree that it took me 2 hours to get the damn gnome rpms installed (it's even harder to compile from source. I don't really like KDE, but at least they make their installation process fairly simple and straightforward. I can handle installing four or five RPMS in a specific order, but installing 20-30 of them, with know knowledge of whether i'll need the -devel- packages, is ridiculous.
I'm a redhat user, and I can say that RPMS are pretty piss poor compared to the stuff people can do with
Nope.. Learning Perl is probably the best tutorial book I've ever seen (language independent). And I'd highly reccommend it. Though, if you know your programming pretty well, I'd skip Learning Perl and go straight for Programming Perl 2nd Edition (the camel book).
The gIDE project for GNOME looks very promising. I think the url is http://gide.pn.org
It doesn't surprise me that http://www.planetquake.com runs IIS. Notice that it and all its affiliate sites (ritualistic.com, etc) all use ASP... Of course, I think we all know they'd be better off with apache...
GNOME has a long way to go if you have to go through a process like that to install it.
That's a damn good question. :) I'm guessing that maybe it will allow you to restore the state of apps when you return, but I donno... Can anyone point me to some info?
I don't know if it's all a matter of time though. I think it's also a matter of geography. Now that we are involved in a new "global economy", we might have history repeating itself all over again. These "symptoms" Katz observerves are probably a result of an immature global economy. Now that shoe companies have foreign workers (instead of domestic) slaving away in factories for pennies because it's the most efficient way to operate. It'll only be time before those workers form something like a Union.